Replying to the video of Atlas on Twitter, Musk, pictured, wrote: “This is nothing. In a few years, that bot will move so fast you’ll need a strobe light to see it”

This is not the first time the Tesla product architect has warned of the dangers of artificial intelligence.

“AI is a rare case where I think we need to be proactive in regulation than be reactive,” he told the National Governors Association earlier this year.

He went on to say: “I have exposure to the most cutting-edge AI, and I think people should be really concerned by it

“AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization in a way that car accidents, airplane crashes, faulty drugs or bad food were not — they were harmful to a set of individuals within society, of course, but they were not harmful to society as a whole.”